Bonnie Jo Campbell Quote

It occurred to Susan that men were always waiting for something cataclysmic-love or war or a giant asteroid. Every man wanted to be a hot-headed Bruce Willis character, fighting against the evil foreign enemy while despising the domestic bureaucracy. Men just wanted to focus on one big thing, leaving the thousands of smaller messes for the women around them to clean up.

American Salvage: Stories (ed. Wayne State University Press, 2010) - ISBN: 9780814334911